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The show premiered on July 4th. Here are the reactions! ** New permanent sound and light show on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Multiple HD projections, surround sound, theatrical lighting and the latest architectural video mapping technologies will bring Boardwalk Hall’s historic façade to life every night all season long.
This building projection was to promote the new movie "The Tourist" starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. The Joule Hotel in downtown Dallas hosted a party with this 3D architectural mapping projection art show, it was projected on the Praetorian Building at 1607 Main Street. The size of the projection was 80' x 80'. LINK: Youtube
Architect Edgar Tafel gives a brief discussion and presents his picture slides Of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan, as the most unfortunate demolition of this architectural masterpiece had already begun. The video was recorded in the theater at Taliesin East, Spring Green Wisconsin in 1992. LINK: Youtube
Today the architectural world remains divided. Should the cathedral be completed in a less ambitious contemporary style? Or should it be left, unfinished, as an original creation?
One exhibit in the Paris Exhibition of 1910 stole the show. It was a plaster model of a church designed by the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi – a design so daring and outrageous that it was difficult to believe anyone seriously consider building it.
An extraordinary fusion of Gothic and Art Nouveau in style, the model was painted in vibrant colors that further enhanced the exuberant design. The plans called for spotlights to direct shafts of light into parts of the interior. Three sets of bell towers, housing both manually operated and electronically controlled tubular bells, were to be topped by stone statues of cherubim with wings that would move in the wind.
One hundred years later, the project is still unfinished. Link, Via: Neatorama
(Image credit: Flickr user Wolfgang Staudt)
Last summer David Byrne of The Talking Heads converted an entire building, the Camden Roundhouse in London, into a musical instrument! He connected every pipe, pillar, and beam to a keyboard, from which you can make them vibrate and produce their individual sounds. This is one only of several large and different musical instruments made out of structures such as silos, a tower, a synagogue, and more at Dark Roasted Blend. Link
(Image credit: Mark Obstfeld), Via: Neatorama
This door by the architectural firm Matharaoo Associates is designed to resemble a sine wave. Now in the home of a diamond merchant in Surat, India, the door measures 5.2m high and 1.7m wide and is made from 40 blocks of teak. Thanks to 160 pulleys and 80 ball bearings, it pushes open easily, despite its weight. More pictures at the link.
Link, Via: Fast Company, Via: Neatorama | Photo: Dinesh Mehta
“Deformscape” is an outdoor architectual project by Thom Faulders (founder of Faulders Studio). LINK
I think we’ve posted about all or nearly all of these buildings on Neatorama, but it’s nice to see ‘em all in one neat post. Here’s WebUrbanist’s 5 Incredible Works of Insane Architectural Genius: Wooden Skyscrapers to Recycled Wonderlands.
The one on the upper right hand corner is Forevetron (previously on Neatorama here):
Tom Avery (aka Dr. Evermore) is responsible for the world’s largest scrap-metal architectural sculpture known as Foreverton. Weighing in at over 300 tons this amazing structure climbs 50 feet in the air and reaches 60 to 120 feet in either direction. Once the owner of a salvage business, Avery began turning his talents to this bizarre architectural pursuit over two decades ago and (supposedly) believes a spaceship contained within will launch him eventually into supernatural world beyond our own and bring him into contact with the Divine. LINK: Neatorama
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